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Phil Cooper / Painting Chimera #6
“As usual, with this chapter, I was spoilt for choice with so many vivid images conjured by the words. In the end, I chose to depict a fossilised dinosaur from the museum Kyp describes. I… Read more
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The Kick-About #14 ‘Boogie Doodle’
The previous edition of the Kick-About featured a rather precarious vision of a civilisation held together by threads. I won’t labour this analogy any further, but suffice to say civilsation feels a good deal more… Read more
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Tankerton Slopes, November #4
A final batch of martime tuftiness from my trip out to Tankerton Slopes at the beginning of the week. I was just thinking how some of these would make for particularly cruel jigsaw puzzles… Read more
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Chimera Book 1 / Chapter 10 – Caramels & Coconut Cracknell
It’s 4 o’clock, there’s a nip in the air, and with a little bit of luck there’s a slice of cake nearby. Time then to rejoin Kyp Finnegan and Atticus Weft in their continuing adventures… Read more
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Tankerton Slopes, November #3 (2020)
Another celebration of the always-surprising subtleties of texture, tone and colour in the everyday scrub of another patch of local wild plants and grasses. As I was taking these images, I could smell the sea… Read more
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Dan Snelgrove: “There’ll Never Be Another Girl Like Stacey!”
Chapter 9 of Chimera Book 1 – entitled Captain Toothache & The Silver Locket – takes place in a locked room, with Kyp Finnegan, the book’s 8 eight year old hero, and Atticus Weft, a… Read more
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Throwback Friday #28 Weak Kneed (2003)
It’s a lesser known fact about me that I’m sometimes known to write a song or two when the mood strikes. That mood used to strike much more often, I think because I didn’t second… Read more
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Tankerton Slopes, November #2 (2020)
More salted, windswept skeins and matted hummocks on the sea-facing rise of Tankerton Slopes. Read more
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Phil Cooper / Painting Chimera #5
Chapter 9 of Chimera Book 1 is a very important one to me. I took the decision at the outset of the very first draft of Chimera that the reader’s first experience of the novel… Read more
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Tankerton Slopes, November #1 (2020)
A short walk along Whitstable’s blustery sea front and you arrive at Tankerton Slopes, a long steep rise of scrubby grass, hog’s fennel and brambles. In the depths of winter, kids sledge down the slopes,… Read more
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